Volume II

Issue : 8: April 15, 2004

• U.S. Broadband Industry May be Forced to Share Following Cable Modem Decision
• UN E-commerce Group Releases Revised Draft Convention on the Use of Data Messages in International Contracts
• Supreme Court of Canada to Hear Criminal Spam Case
• U.S. Senate Bill Introduced to Grant Federal Government Exclusive Regulatory Authority Over VoIP
• U.S. Advocacy Groups Lobby FCC to Protect VoIP from Regulations
• CRTC Releases Preliminary View on VoIP Services
• PGA Tour Wins Battle over the Internet Posting of Real-Time Golf Scores
• British Columbia and Alberta Exempt from PIPEDA
• Canadian Privacy Commissioner's E-kit for Businesses
• Eight European Nations Fail to Implement the E-Privacy Directive
• Google Mail Alleged to Violate European Privacy Laws
• Florida Court Orders RIAA to Bring Individual Suits against Alleged File Swappers
• Federal Government Called Upon to Ban Internet Pharmacies
• Internet Pharmacy Sues Health Canada

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Internet Pharmacy Sues Health Canada

CanadaRx, a Toronto-based Internet pharmacy, recently filed suit in the Federal Court of Canada to prevent Health Canada from inspecting its facility.

Unlike most of the other Internet pharmacies in Canada, CanadaRx is not accredited by a provincial College of Pharmacists and does not employ Canadian doctors to co-sign prescriptions written by U.S. doctors for their U.S. patients. Rather, it fills the original prescriptions and ships the medicines to U.S. patients either directly or through the patient's U.S. doctor or pharmacist. CanadaRx claims that because it is selling medicines to purchasers in the U.S., it need not comply with the Food and Drugs Act provisions requiring that medicines be sold pursuant to a prescription written by a health care professional licensed to practice medicine in Canada.

Calling the proposed inspection by Health Canada "invalid and unlawful", CanadaRx suspects that it was simply intended to penalize the company for selling cheaper drugs to Americans. Health Canada has indicated that it intends to defend this action and will continue the program of random inspection of Internet pharmacies that it began last fall.

For additional information, visit:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1078407054770_4/